diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
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@@ -1733,6 +1733,11 @@ Konqueror, and elinks.  (Contributed by Oleg Broytmann and George
 Brandl.)
 % Patch #754022
 
+\item Python's standard library no longer includes 
+a package named \module{xml}; the library's XML-related package
+has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}.    This means 
+it will always be possible to import the standard library's 
+XML support whether or not the PyXML package is installed.
 
 \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning 
       \class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type.  Supply 
@@ -2348,6 +2353,10 @@ to allow only \code{'/'} and \code{'/RPC2'}.  Setting
 \member{rpc_paths} to \code{None} or an empty tuple disables 
 this path checking.
 
+\item Library: the \module{xml} package has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}.
+The PyXML package will therefore be \module{xml}, and the Python
+distribution's code will always be accessible as \module{xmlcore}.
+
 \item C API: Many functions now use \ctype{Py_ssize_t} 
 instead of \ctype{int} to allow processing more data on 64-bit
 machines.  Extension code may need to make the same change to avoid